Over the past eighteen months Arthur Casey and Mick Egan have researched these men in more detail.  The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website contains information about each soldier, such as regiment, rank, cemetry, historical battle information and sometimes additional notes.

These records show that most of the men fought and fell in the fields of France and Flanders, two in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and some at home, including Lieutenant C. Thornton who was killed during a training plane crash in 1917.  One poignant fact which is evident from this research is the young age of the these men, who not only left behind grieving parents but in many cases, a wife and children as well.

By the end of the war approximately 150,000 Birmingham men had fought in the armed services, 11,000 of whom did not return, killed serving their country.

   "Let them not grow old as they that are left grow old.
   Age shall not wither them, nor the years condemn.
   At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."
      - Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) read by Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, 1923.

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Four of the names have not been found in the Commonwealth War Graves records or "Soldiers Died in the Great War" (CD ROM).   These are Robert D. Coughtree, J. Brittain, T.S. Smith and A. Stewart.   If anyone can provide any information to help trace their regiment and final resting place Arthur and Mick would be very interested, please contact them by email or at the Carillon visitor centre on the Village Green.